On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM Rob Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stark. But like most future predictions, really a caricature of what > we have now. > > To my mind maybe the most important of several mini-singularities that > we can't see beyond, must be the biological one. The story beyond that > won't be one of what humans are doing, as humans, it will be what > humans have become. With two clear dimensions, the physical and the > intellectual. > > The physical should transcend race and death. Or even the biosphere. > Time might become less of a barrier. > You've said a mouthful there but "physical" can take a number of routes, the most important currently being the selection for what one might call, for lack of a better term, "heritable tendency to defraud even one's self" with the result that whatever results can no longer be called "human" nor even "transhuman" but "merely" an animal incapable of using speech to communicate. I scare quote "merely" because there is good reason to view most "humans" presently as extended phenotypes of genotypes that have parasitically castrated them to be sterile workers in a very aggressive "black hole singularity" collapse into the Unfriendly AGI known as The Global Economy. It is SO aggressive that no one anywhere is being permitted protective isolation -- not even the Amish. Indeed anyone who so much as ATTEMPTS protective isolation is cast as the most virulent evil -- the Unforgivable SIN by the UAGI's emerging global culture's quasi religion. These religions utilize the human capacity for moral indoctrinability to advance addiction to what David Brin called in commenting on his "The Postman", "Gracious things of civilization." The fact that some genotypes will benefit in the short term -- genotypes that are the most virulent in their abuse of that capacity to advance their own short-term interests -- merely means they will be the victors in an evolutionary arms race that entails self-deception as the iron-clad guard against detection. They'll be utterly incapable of what we might now call deliberation. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7f5ee99aff67162a-Mb9949dc5802b6a7ab2c49723 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
